thomas wolfe

“ Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again... ”

“ Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind. ”

“ From this time forth, with the sanction of the courts, they kept him. ”

“ Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. ”

“ ...and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas. ”

“ It was like a dream of hell, when a man finds his own name staring at him from the Devil's ledger... ”

“ Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. ”

“ You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. ”

“ In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness... ”

“ This time it was obvious that a work of more than usual magnitude was in transit. ”